Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1887-08-11
STATE NEWS.
Items Gathered in Different
Counties.

We are pleased to learn that Kew.
Mr.. Porter, of Mount Holly, is i'm
proving.
Miss Lizzie Satterfield, of Waterford,
who had an ankle injured on the Cam
den Atlantic Railroad last Friday, has
begun suit against the Company for
$40, 900 damages.
The total number of members in
good standing in the New Jersey De-
partment of the Grand Army of the
Republic is 6,928. During the quarter
just ended the Order made net gain
of 191 members.
Poet Walt Whitman, of Camden, has
peremptorily refused to sanction the
formation of the Whitman Society in
Boston, which had for its main pur-
pose the endowment of the poet with
weekly pension.
The contractors for digging out the
Sandy Hook bar, for which $1S0,000
was appropriated, began the work
Friday. They are building break
water at Atlantic Highlands for the
protection of their vessels while
anchore ed in the bay.
Gibbs and Wesley, the Glassboro
shoe manufacturers, who eloped with
two of their employees last spring, are
said to be now living in small town
called Plainville, near Toronto, Can
ada; that Gibbs is running small farm
and Wesley shoe store.
Yesterday the first rails on the West
Jersey extension from Manumuskin to
the mouth of the Maurice River were
laid at Manumuskin. Already about
one mile of the road is graded at Heis-
lerville, and several more Italians went
down a few days ago to help push
along the work.
About two weeks ago mad dog ap-
peared in the vicinity of White Horse,
near Bordentown, and bit two hogs
belonging to farmer named Joseph
Waters, who resides near there. One
of the hogs has since died in the ag-
onies of hydrophobia. The other is
suffering from rabies and will be killed.
A granite monument has been
erected in the Methodist Cemetery at
Succasunna, in memory of the ten
workmen who were killed by an ex-
plosion at the Atlantic Dynamite
Works. The shaft cost $400, and was
paid for by the subscriptions of the
fellow-workmen and friends Of the un-
fortunate men.
The ladies of the Parsonage and Aid
Society of the Third Street NJ. E.
Church. Camden, have projected an
embellished window in the rear of the
pulpit in the newly frescoed lecture
room as tribute to Rev. Charles H..
Whiticar, D. D., who was pastor OF the
church when the present edifce was
erected in 1862
While Ellsworth Hewitt, a carpenter,
was at work at Weeks Hotel, Anglesea,
yesterday afternoon, bullet whistled
by him, shattering, as it passed clay
pipe which he had in his mouth. A
piece of the pipe was forced into his
right eye, cutting it so badly that he
will lose his sight. 1t is mystery
j where the shot came from.
The new Cooper Hospital, Camden,
was opened for the reception OF
patients yesterday, and four persons
applied for admission, but, as they
were suffering from chronic diseases,
they were not admitted. DR.. j. H.
Willis, the pathologist of the hospital,
was on duty yesterday, but the resi-
dent physician will arrive to-day.
A weather report for July at Toms
River, near the sea coast, says: The
past month leads the record for tenn
perature, and has been the hottest
since 1871. On the 18th ult., the ther-
mometer reached its greatest altitude,
1923 degrees. On thirteen days the
temperature was 80 degrees or over,
and on but eight days-seven of which
were before the 14th ult.-was the min
imum temperature 70 degrees or less.
Altogether it has been one of the most
irving months to animal life ever eX-
perienced in this section"
About week ago it was decided by
the Beverly A. NJ. E. Church, that
money was needed to meet certain ex-
penses and it was decided to give q
watch to the person returning the
greatest amount of collections. The
pastor, Rev. Mr.. Shields, was deputized
to secure, the watch, which he did, re-
turning bill of seven dollars, when it
was claimed that the watch only cost
five dollars. Mr.. Shields denied have
ing appropriated the difference, bus
complaint has been made to the Bishop